Philippines

NEARLY a month after Yolanda (or Haiyan) levelled Eastern Visayas to the ground, the administration of President Benigno Aquino III is scrambling to undo the damage to its image, primarily, and to uplift the stricken population.

From left, Filipina organ donor Caroline Dela Cruz and her brother Nestor, with kidney recipient-in-waiting Esther Slubski and son Elias Slubski of Long Island, N.Y., in an undated photo in the Philippines.